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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:49:37 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Thanks for pointing this out, Andi. I've been just now writing more or 
> > less the same thing; ditching that and will reuse your patch instead.
> > 
> > Why was the more aggresive version (6cfb521ac0d5b) merged into Linus' tree 
> > instead of that?
> 
> Greg prefered using modversions

Ah. OK, Greg: I'll eat my hat (I've heard that's very popular these times) 
if there is a major enterprise distro that doesn't revert this patch 
immediately.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs